Jama Integration With GitLab

Jama GitLab Integration overview

In an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ecosystem, the choice of systems and the collaboration between the cross-functional teams play a great role. While the choice of systems impacts the productivity of a team, the cross-functional collaboration brings in collective wisdom to take better decisions, faster.

Best-of-breed systems such as GitLab and Jama bring rich functionalities to the ecosystem and make the work of the product and development team easier. When Jama and GitLab integrated within the ecosystem, the teams have real-time visibility into the progress of development work & commits made by the development team.

Please fill this form to download the datasheet.

* Mandatory Fields

Yes, I want to receive newsletters, educational and promotional content from OpsHub including invitations to webinars and other events. I know I can unsubscribe any time.

How Jama – GitLab integration is beneficial for an enterprise

Enforce authentic commits to make sure each commit is happening against a scheduled and open workitem

How OpsHub Integration Manager integrates Jama and GitLab

OpsHub Integration Manager integrates all commit related information from GitLab to Jama. It ensures that all data is available to each user, in that user’s preferred system, with full context, in real-time. All the details related to a commit can be synced to Jama in various ways, following are a few examples:

Synchronize every commit as a separate workitem linked to the workitem against which commit happens

Synchronize commit details as comment to the workitem against which commit happens

Change workitem field like ‘close a workitem’ when commit comments contain a pre-defined identifier

Popularly synchronized entities

Use Case: Jama Integration with GitLab

Problem statement: Lack of commit traceability means product and development teams must manually communicate about the changes and updates for each requirement.

Solution: When Jama and GitLab are integrated, there is end-to-end visibility for a requirement from ideation stage to the commit stage.

The Product Manager creates a ‘business requirement’ in Jama.

The development team works on the requirement, tests it, and then commits it in GitLab against the ‘requirement id’ specified in Jama.

For each commit that happens from the development team, OpsHub Integration Manager synchronizes a ‘commit entity’ linked to the specific requirement id back to Jama. Each ‘commit entity’ includes information such as ‘who did the commit?’, ‘when was the commit done?’, and ‘which part of the code was committed?’.

Benefits of integration for Jama and GitLab users

Jama users

Complete traceability from Jama to source code in GitLab

Visibility into the progress of development work, the volume and quality of commits made with full context, in real-time

Reduced dependency on manual communication to track the completion of a task

GitLab users

Each commit can be traced back to its respective workitem at any given point in time from GitLab itself

Enforced checkpoints ensure that no mandatory steps/checks are missed while making a commit – this leads to high success rate for commits